It pays
to read. Especially these days.
Try one
of my favorite reporter-writers: Matt Taibbi, now in Rolling Stone:
that
America gets the karma it deserves.
Brutal
but essential.
Read,
read, read.
Then
Jill Lepore in The New Yorker, Oct. 9:
the
lead Talk of the Town cuts to the chase on what it means to be an
unreconstituted liberal.
“[Free
speech] is a long and strenuous argument, as maddening as the past and as
painful as the truth.”
Read,
read, read.
In the
same New Yorker, Jon Lee Anderson boogies like no one else on the “border wall”
with Mexico.
“[NAFTA’s]
created 53 million very poor people for whom the only solution is to emigrate
to the United States and send remittances home.”
Read,
read, read.
The
White House treats Puerto Rico’s US citizens in an offhand way? It’s no
accident the American president (emperor?) lives in a capital “W” white house.
How “white” has the nation been since its founding?
Consider
the story after story after story in the epic tales of the Indian Wars with the
over-sentimental title, “The Earth Is Weeping,” by Peter Cozzens (see recent
blog post here). Many treaties were signed only to be broken, with the dog
whistle command of government (during these years of unrivaled growth in land
and economic wealth for white citizens) being:
“The
only good Indian is a dead Indian.”
Read,
read, read.
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